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Quotes By author - Starting with A - Ambrose Bierce
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There are 139 quotes for the author Ambrose Bierce
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love & Romance
Humor
Marriage
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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Humor
Women
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
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Justice
Laws
Sarcasm
Work: Devil's Dictionary
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon
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Humor
Sarcasm
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There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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Justice
Laws
Judgment
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FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Humor
Sarcasm
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Patience
Cynicism
Sarcasm
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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Revenge
Patience
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DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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Patriotism
Diplomacy
Sarcasm
Work: Devil Dictionary
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Perseverance
Sarcasm
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Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education
Knowledge
Sarcasm
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Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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Ego
Sarcasm
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Logic
Sarcasm
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
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Patriotism
Sarcasm
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Doubt
Truth
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Doubt
Failure
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Eulogy
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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Humor
Ego
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Intellect
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Optimism
Sarcasm
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